Egd remove foreign body at Providence Little Company of Mary Med Center Torrance

4101 Torrance Blvd, Torrance, CA · Providence · · NPI 1003084211

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Apr 1, 2026 · Ingested Sep 11, 2026

$508.20

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What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge.

Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.

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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.

$1,452.00

Gross charge

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Gross charge (chargemaster price)

The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this.

Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.

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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.

$1,166.53 with Aetna vs $14,692.00 with Cigna — same scan, same building. Share

Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate

The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.

Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.

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Payer
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Payer

The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on.

Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509.

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Plan
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Plan

The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates.

Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Aetna Medicare Managed Care Plan $1,166.53 ↑ +130%
Humana Medicare Managed Care Plan $1,189.87 ↑ +134%
Blue Cross Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan $1,222.15 ↑ +140%
Caremore Medicare Managed Care Plan $1,283.19 ↑ +152%
Blue Cross Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan $1,376.49 ↑ +171%
La Care Health Plan Covered Ca Exchange $1,516.49 ↑ +198%
Blue Shield Medicare Managed Care Plan $1,528.00 ↑ +201%
Healthnet Ambetter Hmo $2,158.09 ↑ +325%
Healthnet Ambetter Ppo $2,496.38 ↑ +391%
Unitedhealthcare Select/Navigate Hmo $2,674.00 ↑ +426%
Healthnet Blue And Gold Other Commercial Plan $2,719.00 ↑ +435%
Unitedhealthcare All Commercial Plans $3,028.00 ↑ +496%
Blue Shield Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange $3,516.00 ↑ +592%
Blue Cross All Commercial Plans $3,816.00 ↑ +651%
Blue Shield Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo $3,835.00 ↑ +655%
Blue Shield Hmo $3,947.00 ↑ +677%
Blue Shield Ppo/Epo $4,256.00 ↑ +737%
Healthnet All Commercial Plans $4,385.00 ↑ +763%
Cigna Oa/Oap Hmo/Pos $6,832.00 ↑ +1244%
Cigna Ppo $14,692.00 ↑ +2791%

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Egd remove foreign body at other California hospitals

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Petaluma Valley Hospital Petaluma $1,519.29 $1,222.26 – $4,657.00
Mark Twain Medical Center San Andreas $395.61 $153.67 – $582.12
Queen of The Valley Medical Center Napa $1,601.91 $1,287.79 – $7,483.00
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Healdsburg Hospital Healdsburg $842.01 $1,222.02 – $5,198.77
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Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital Santa Rosa $1,601.91 $1,262.04 – $4,737.00
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